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Show Iff 1 POLITICS MAKES STRANGE BEDFELLOWS BflF .b'pec-Ial to The Tribune. f I DKNVER, Colo., "Fob. 1. Woodrow ; y WIJsou of Now Jersey, Democrat, , )Sbl"-5t Jo3Cp1' I- 1!,ra,cor ot Ohio, Ec- . .V p"tjcs makes no(. only strange bed-j. bed-j. jgUowSgJiiit sometimes produce strum ger :iutaonistF." snirt John W. Springer ! president of tlio National Livestock, association for fight, yours, ami a prominent promi-nent banker and politician of this city, today. "Tho candidacy of President-Woodrow President-Woodrow Wilson of Princeton university univer-sity Tor tlio national Democratic noini nation Buegosts an niuisnul political possibility pos-sibility ho miiy run against u mom- bor ol' hit) own 'collogo J'ratorniiy. lie and FWaker belong to Phi Kappa Psi. which stands in the 'iilpliri. class of intorcolleciatc orders, in the nntionnl Cromiuvncp and tho number of its mem-crs mem-crs and its ago in. the Greek- letter world. Wilson .joined at the University Univer-sity of Virginia in 1879. and I'ornkcr ut Ohio Wcsloyan university in 1S0G. "Both men havo been especially invited in-vited to bo. present at the biennial convention con-vention of the Grand Areli council of tho fraternity, which opens in Denver July J. and which will bo attended bv i more than (j00 iindorgrnduatu delegates : and alifmui, Senator Knrukcr may cmno ! out hero with tho Republican Prcsi-I Prcsi-I dcntiul nomiiuitioit already in his pocket land a. few .dnyH later 'witucsH the uomi- nation of his brother Phi Psi by tho Democratic national convention. Then the two nominees will congratulate each other with the frnfc grip and ru-turn ru-turn to lliotr respective homes to pro-, pro-, pare fur the fratricidal battle of Greek against Greek. "It would certainly be a unique situ-'ntion situ-'ntion in American polities and while -the j combinautioii may not be brought about it is quite within the rnugc of possibilities." possi-bilities." Pour yo,nr3 ago Mr. Springer was indorsed in-dorsed by tho republicans of Colorado for tho Vice-Presidcntinl nomination and was the Republican nominee for Mayor of Denver, lie is president of the Pockv Mountain Alumnt association of Phi Kappa Psi. |